Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies

Copyright and Terms of Publication

Further information

All work published by Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies is subject to the BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licensing arrangement. Articles are free to download and share with attribution, however re-use or re-mixing for private and/or commerical purposes is forbidden.

Copyright Statement

Authors retain copyright of their articles and may republish them anywhere provided that Limina is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and that the work is not published again within the first twelve (12) months of the article’s initial publication in Limina (with the exception of the open access provisions below).

Authors are required to certify that their articles are entirely their own work, and that the material contained within them is new and has not, either wholly or substantially in part, been previously published elsewhere. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to quote material from other copyright sources and/or reproduce any images or illustrations. Authors also bear any costs pertaining to reproduction permissions and/or the purchase of acceptable print-quality digital versions. Any permissions to reproduce must cover electronic distribution of the work and documentation must be provided to Limina.

Open Access

Limina provides open access to all content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work.

Authors may make pre-print ('submitted version') and post-print ('accepted manuscript') versions of their article available on their personal web site, in their institution’s on-line repository, or in an online non-profit disciplinary repository. No permission from Limina is required for these uses, and no fees will be charged. Publication in Limina must be acknowledged, with a complete citation (volume and year).

Authors may also make a publisher version of their article (as copy-edited, formatted and published) available on their personal Web site, in their institution’s on-line repository, or in an online non-profit disciplinary repository. No permission from Limina is required for these uses, and no fees will be charged. Publication in Limina must be acknowledged, with a complete citation (volume and year).

Plagiarism Policy

Defining Plagiarism

Plagiarism most commonly refers to the intentional and incited use of another's writing in work an author claims as his/her own. However, 'self-plagiarism' in which an author reuses his/her own previous work without proper citation also sits beneath the umbrella of plagiarism. Other types of plagiarism include legal dimensions such as copyright infringement, as well as ethical ones such as inadequate acknowledgement of someone else's ideas or data. Poor paraphrasing of such things is just one of the ways an author can unintentionally plagiarise.

Limina's Plagiarism Policy

Limina does not condone plagiarism of any type, intentional or otherwise. If any plagiarism is noted, either by our editorial collective in the initial screening, or by our peer reviewers at any stage of the reviewing process before publication, the author will be informed and asked to rewrite the concerned section or add the required citation. If the plagiarism is on a large scale, that is at least 25% of the original submission is plagiarized, the whole article will be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after the journal issue is published, an editorial note will be added to inform readers of the fact, and the author’s employer may be notified of the breach. Our policy aims to both inform our contributors about acceptable and ethical academic publishing practices, and to preserve a very high standard for the articles we publish in Limina.